# New techniques for bounding stabilizer rank

1Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, Canada
2QMATH, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

### Abstract

In this work, we present number-theoretic and algebraic-geometric techniques for bounding the stabilizer rank of quantum states. First, we refine a number-theoretic theorem of Moulton to exhibit an explicit sequence of product states with exponential stabilizer rank but constant approximate stabilizer rank, and to provide alternate (and simplified) proofs of the best-known asymptotic lower bounds on stabilizer rank and approximate stabilizer rank, up to a log factor. Second, we find the first non-trivial examples of quantum states with multiplicative stabilizer rank under the tensor product. Third, we introduce and study the generic stabilizer rank using algebraic-geometric techniques.

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### Cited by

[1] Shir Peleg, Amir Shpilka, and Ben Lee Volk, "Lower Bounds on Stabilizer Rank", arXiv:2106.03214, (2021).

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